Vryheid mine sit-in enters fifth day
Workers staging a sit in at the Vaalkrantz Anthracite Colliery outside Vryheid in northern KZN stayed up most of last night.
It's the fourth day without food for some of the coal miners underground.
Management yesterday read-out a court interdict to the workers, saying they'll be arrested.
The miners, employed by Nasonti Mining Services and contracted to Keaton Energy Holdings, began their protest on Monday.
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They're refusing to leave the shaft until wages they claim are owed to them are paid.
This worker says by 1am this morning their pleas to police to allow food were still falling on deaf ears.
"We're sitting by the shaft entrance - they're still not allowing food in for us and once you get out - they don't let you back in," she said.
(File photo)